Hagen.] 284 [March 17, 



belong^ to another species. My specimen from England $ is very 

 small face pale brown, only two sectors. 



Mr. E. Newman, Proc. Ent. Soc, May 5, 1856 (repr. Zoologist, 

 p. 5152) states that Mr. Dorville found in a pupa shell of Abraxes 

 grossularia a white silken cocoon, out of which emerged H. vari- 

 egatus. This is the only fact known of the previous stages of Mi- 

 cromus. When I saw Stephens' collection, a specimen of H. va- 

 riegatus with the label fimbriatus was near the type of H. hirtus, 

 but other types of H. variegatus were in the right place and no. 26 

 H. fimbriatus in the Illustr. with a ?, was wanting. 



7. Micromns variolosus, n. spec. 



Micromus variolosus Hag. 



Long. c. al. 7. mm. ; exp. al. 13 mm. 



This species imitates M. variegatus. 



Head and thorax brownish gray, with a little bluish tinge, with 

 transverse rows of very small black tubercles ; head in front and near 

 the eyes, }'ellow, glossy ; palpi blackish, shining ; antennae shorter, 

 half as long as the front wings, yellow, the two basal joints black- 

 ish, but the first yellow above ; thorax with yellowish sutures. 

 Front wings long, narrow, more than three times longer than 

 broad, very little dilated in middle, apex elliptical ; hyaline, milk- 

 white, mottled with numerous blackish spots, very shortly fringed 

 around and on the veins with white cilia ; four sectors ; series of 

 gradate veins irregular, the external with six gradate, the internal 

 with four ; all cells between them very elongate and narrowed to 

 the gradate veins ; a maculose dark band somewhat longitudinal 

 a*long the external gradate series, numerous other more or less 

 definite spots ; some darker, along the hind margin, some trans- 

 verse near the base ; veins brown regularly intersected with white ; 

 hind wings of similar shape, hyaline, with a few darker spots on 

 the apical half of the front margin ; veins on the basal half white, 

 brown on the apical half with some white intersections; three 

 sectors, four to five external brown gradate veins and five inter- 

 nals ; cells very large. Legs yellowish white, whitish pilose ; 

 two black bands on tibia, one on femur, the last tarsal joint black, 

 claws white. Abdomen blackish brown, the side membrane and 

 the last segment luteous }^ellow ; tubercles large ; last ventral 

 segment cut straight ; the last segment compressed but split ; 



